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What's the best Bible version?
>>8280303
KJV.
>>8280309
/thread
A friend recommended to me the book Hyperion by Dan Simmons said it was gonna fuck me up how true is this?
yeah it will fucking piss you off with how shitty it is and when you get to the end it sucks balls even more and leaves you with a giant faggy cliffhanger forcing you to either give up (like I did) or read the next shitty instalment.
>>8280255
Slap yourself, delete this topic, and post it again when you've actually got something to say about the book.
>>8280255
fucking kill yourself for this thread. fucking drive erratically around some American police. when they pull you over, shout out your window you have a gun. when they tell you to put your hands up, only raise one. get out of the car before they tell you too. make sure your holding something in your hand that they can't see. start walking towards them and reach into your waistband and start yelling I'm gonna shoot you.
suicide complete
two days ago I lost a word and it has been eating at me
what is the word describing "the application of concerted physical force to a small area"
ideally something with physically penetrative connotations, like "prying" or "piercing"
maybe close to "concerted"
any help appreciated
>>8280219
concentrated
>>8280230
maybe that is it, I don't know
my problem is that I want to use concentrated or a word like it abstractly, to describe a multi-faceted approach to problem solving.
But when you use "concentrated" in the mental sense, it looses the connotations I find valuable
physically it describes a forceful and attempt to exert force on a small area
but mentally it's reduced to
"thinking hard about something"
"thinking about only one thing"
it becomes studious, methodical; instead of forceful and channeled
Poke, bro.
>be me
>boring life
>starts writing shitty short histories for escapism
>life gets interesting
>cannot write now
I've been trying for 3 days straight and my body still refusing to do.
>writing for escapism
The worst meme to ever happen to literature.
You should kill yourself
I agree with >>8280209
If you need a reason to write at all then you probably shouldn't be writing.
Hey /lit/, i was wondering what website is best (hopefully cheapest) to buy books? Amazon, E bay, Thrift Book? Any recommendations.
Dude, all the books I've bought come from half.com.
But, don't indulge into the jewish scheme of materialism, and start renting books from the library, it's cheaper, and sustainable for the planet.
>>8280201
i live in a rural area so it's a long drive also they don't have that good of a selection so for specific books i wanted to know the best website.
>>8280194
God, you're even chintzy with the pixels in thqt wonderful picture.
why do can so few people now speak properly? I've been noticing more and more lately that a staggering number of people either have some sort of vocal fry, insert the word like every two seconds, or sound completely retarded when they talk. why is this? is it related to how little most people read somehow? the fuck?
>>8280166
>why do can so few people now speak properly
>>8280166
>speak properly
Language evolves over time. "Proper" speech is constantly changing and mostly being defined by the ruling class who still get corrupted by vernacular
its because millennials use their brains less and a dumber than all previous generations
What determines conclusively that a book is literature? A lot of you seem to think that it's objective. Is Call of the Wild literature?
if the protagonist isn't male, it's not literature
a book can't be literature
biblio
literature
novel
fiction
book
rag
in that order
>>8280162
Literature is defined by its form, structure, and content; how it expresses its ideas, themes, and characters.
There can be grey areas in the literary merit of a work, but that doesn't make it a subjective concept.
In contrast, genre fiction is driven by the its genre's tropes, it's plot, and offers very little outside of the book's scope in terms of philosophical themes, humanity, artistic merit(prose, structure, etc.), or reflection of the world.
Of course there is some overlap, they share a medium.
good examples of literature would be Dostoyevsky and Woolf.
good examples of genre fiction would be GRRM and Harry Potter Lady
>XXI century literature
Senhores, how do we fix this mess?
write a good book
>>8280099
/thread
>>8280099
double dubs confirm
Hiya, /lit/.
I've been researching potential dynamics between humans and artificial life for a science fiction universe I'm developing. I'm not so much interested specifically in androids that LOOK like humans where the differences are only internal. Rather, I'm interested in androids who are obviously mechanical but can "think" and "feel" apparently like normal humans.
In my universe, humans and androids will fight a common threat together, along with other humanoid races. These races' perceptions of each other is what I'm trying to lay out. Some humans don't trust these "feeling" androids, and some androids think equally poorly of humans. However, many members of both races are very fond of one another.
Can you guys recommend some reads for this kind of material? I recently read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", and while it was interesting it didn't evoke any of the themes I want to explore.
Thanks in advance!
>>8280045
How did the artificial life forms came to be?
This is important.
>>8280075
This artificial "life" the androids have is an emergent property from the improvements to artificial intelligence over time. At a certain point, artificial beings began improving themselves (Think Skynet, but less sinister, I guess?) and are now apparently sentient with "thoughts" and "feelings" on things that were never programmed by humanity. As a society, they are not hostile to humanity, but there is selective animosity between the races. One might say they're treated like a minority? (Though the morality of this is up to the viewer, since their being "alive" is ambiguous.)
The artificial beings were templated after human neurology, so they choose to keep a relatively human form (though their synapses are incompatible with ours, naturally.) Androids who choose to look more human might hold humanity in higher esteem, or even see them as gods. But I don't ever plan on them being realistic enough to be confused for a human.
>>8280123
Clarification: They're treated like a minority by come citizens. There is no oppressive legislation that is unfair to androids.
What book should I read to reignite my will to live?
Just drifting by life isn't cutting it anymore.
>>8280029
The only way books will give you an answer is by books being the answer (that is, you want to study literature and that's what drives you).
de re miltiari
the illiad
thus spoke zarathustra
the trial
tracatus logicos philosophicus
>>8280037
This desu. I can't kill myself yet because there are too many books I still want to read.
/lit/ i need your help. Im in the 12th grade right now and have been writing for about 2 weeks. I want to know how to improve my writing quality to at least "it was okay" tier by next year. Any tips or things I should look out for?
avoid cliches unless you know how to subvert them
that's really the only hard and fast rule, i'd say. meaning all the shit you've heard like "show don't tell" is bull
>how to improve a skill
practice
>>8279949
>meaning all the shit you've heard like "show don't tell" is bull
this especially, the books I've read by people that encourage 'show don't tell' have all been bland, vapid works devoid of all personality
Hello /lit/
I'm prepping to start my first year teaching, and I need to arrange a list of summer reading books for the incoming high school freshmen. Do you have any recommendations? I don't want to do the generic ones like Animal Farm, because I know they won't read it. Are there any fun, somewhat shorter books for freshmen that you would recommend? preferably more recent ones.
(Also, not ones that have been made into movies)
>>8279877
animorphs
>>8279877
I think my favorite book in highschool was The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing. Hit my head too many times to remember anything else
>>8279909
Oh yeah, Flowers for Algernon
>Barnes and Nobel make a dating app
>users are matched based on their reviews of books they've read
Would you use it?
I hate myself why would I want to meet someone like me
>>8279880
So both of you can hate yourselves together, under a blanket, rereading your reviewed books.
>>8279895
Sounds comfy.
Hey /lit/, this is a long shot and something I asked here before a year or two ago, but to no avail... I'm looking for a book I saw as a small child 30~ years ago. It's one of my earliest memories and no amount of searching has revealed it and it's driving me crazy.
Here's some information:
I'm pretty sure it's either a fantasy or sci-fi novel. I saw this in the mid 80s, so the book was likely published around or before that time. I was very small, I don't think I could read yet so I don't even remember anything about the title.
Here's the most striking/memorable part of the book, why it has stuck with me for over 30 years, and hopefully its strongest identifier:
The cover featured an intricately-detailed scene (not unlike pictured) of who I assume was the protagonist (I think it was your stereotypical 80s warrior/barbarian, probably scantily-clad and musclebound, though I can't be sure of this particular detail.) I believe he was hiding from the central focus of the cover, which was a giant, and we're talking COLOSSAL slug or possibly even snail. I think it was just a giant monster slug, but I think there was also some kind of giant shell either on the creature itself or in the background, because the background of the scene was really what was most interesting: it all took place in a vast swamp littered with bones. If I'm not mistaken, they weren't just human bones, but all sorts of creatures that, I assume, fell victim to this giant slug creature.
I'd give anything to see this image again, but I get the impression that this might have been from a very limited publication of a little-known book, so my hopes of finding it aren't too high... Here's to hoping you can help.
I'll give this a bump before letting it fall back into obscurity...
Probably not this, though if it was so long ago you could've mistaken any two things for eyestalks...
>>8279808
sounsd interesting, heres a free bump
Hey /lit/.
What was your favourite book from when you were 13? Mine was pic related, started my interest in politics.
queen of the swords by Michael Moorcock
because i thought Xiombarg was hot
>>8279786
I have fapped hundreds of times to this. Notice the usage of the present perfect tense in the previous sentence.
Hamlet, didn't read much back then but Shakespeare was my favorite author. Second favorite was Romeo and Juliet.
